Well airplanes flying close to land and sea

Everybody flying but a n***o like me

Uncle Sam says

'Your place is on the ground;

When I fly my airplanes

Don't want no n***o 'round '

The same thing for the Navy

When ships goes to sea

All they got is a mess boy's job for me

Uncle Sam says

'Keep on your apron son;

You know I ain't going to

Let you shoot my big Navy gun '

Got my long government letter

It's my time to go

When I got to the Army

Found the same old Jim Crow

Uncle Sam says

'Two camps for black and white '

But when trouble starts

We'll all be in that same big fight

If you ask me I think democracy is fine

I mean democracy without a color line

Uncle Sam says

'We'll live the American way '

Let's get together and kill Jim Crow today